News Source: Malaysiakini
| about 6 hours ago
Overpriced hospital, another public fund 'sink hole' Tan Kian Khim: Let's summarise this: A huge, taxpayer-funded public hospital project is awarded (at 50%-60% above industry cost estimates) to a shell company (presumably without tender) which has
News Source: Voice of America
| about 10 hours ago
PF delegates say they want to decide who will succeed President Robert Mugabe, who will be 86 in February. President Robert Mugabe received fewer votes in the presidential election last year than MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai. PF delegates say they
News Source: News 24
| about 17 hours ago
The top leadership of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's party has decided that he will remain its leader for the next five years with his role as party boss unquestioned, officials said on Tuesday. The politburo of the 46-year-old Zanu-PF party made
News Source: Open Democracy
| 1 day ago
Anti-government protesters in Iran subject to police violence...All this and more in today's update. Just as Iran was today commemorating the victims of a 1953 police assault on anti-American student protesters, Iranian police were reported to have
News Source: News 24
| 1 day ago
A London-registered mining company is demanding the eviction of Zimbabwean state companies and their South African partners working the controversial Chiadzwa diamond field in the east of the country, lawyers confirmed on Monday. Lawyer Jonathan
News Source: The New York Times
| 1 day ago
This winter’s travel books offer a roughly even mix of vice and virtue. From prostitution, thievery and violence in Bangkok and Johannesburg to the classical antiquities and literary treasures of the Greek islands and Oxford, they explore both the
News Source: Daily Nation
| 2 days ago
Zimbabwe’s three governing parties are close to reaching an agreement on a range of thorny disputes threatening their power sharing agreement, insiders revealed at the weekend. Sources close to the talks said negotiators from Zanu PF and the two
News Source: News 24
| 2 days ago
Foreign airlines have stopped using Zimbabwe's airspace because the country's meteorological service is incapable of supplying weather information they need, according to officials. The state-run Department of Meteorological Services automatic